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TI-2025-40517 Aliases CVE-2025-65947GHSA-jf9p-2fv9-2jp2

thread-amount is Vulnerable to Resource Exhaustion (Memory and Handle Leaks) on Windows and macOS

Priority MEDIUM 44CWE-400Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

thread-amount is a tool that gets the amount of threads in the current process. Prior to version 0.2.2, there are resource leaks when querying thread counts on Windows and Apple platforms. In Windows platforms, the thread_amount function calls CreateToolhelp32Snapshot but fails to close the returned HANDLE using CloseHandle. Repeated calls to this function will cause the handle count of the process to grow indefinitely, eventually leading to system instability or process termination when the handle limit is reached. In Apple platforms, the thread_amount function calls task_threads (via Mach kernel APIs) which allocates memory for the thread list. The function fails to deallocate this memory using vm_deallocate. Repeated calls will result in a steady memory leak, eventually causing the process to be killed by the OOM (Out of Memory) killer. This issue has been patched in version 0.2.2.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00371 31st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed thread-amount (jzeuzs): 0.2.2thread-amount (crates.io): 0.2.2

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
jzeuzsthread-amountbefore 0.2.20.2.2Patch availableCNA
—thread-amount (crates.io)before 0.2.20.2.2Patch availableGHSA-jf9p-2fv9-2jp2
  • thread-amount Vendorjzeuzs Affected before 0.2.2 Fixed in 0.2.2 Patch available CNA
  • thread-amount (crates.io) Vendor— Affected before 0.2.2 Fixed in 0.2.2 Patch available GHSA-jf9p-2fv9-2jp2

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA thread-amount (jzeuzs) Fixed in 0.2.2
  • Fix · GHSA-jf9p-2fv9-2jp2 thread-amount (crates.io) Fixed in 0.2.2 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-65947
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jf9p-2fv9-2jp2

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